Why do the names of the ancient civilizations sound so familiar?
Li Yao was dazed again. Especially the 'Huaxia Civilization'?
There was no time for him to think, but the pictures in his head were moving forward at a speed of hundreds of years per second.
Splendid palaces rose and collapsed again and again. Towering cities were annihilated in the tide of war. In the east, people built magnificent water conservancy systems and the Great Wall to resist the invasion of floods and fierce beasts. In the west, people drove narrow and simple boats to cut through the waves and gallop across the ocean.
Greece, Rome, Persia, Spring and Autumn Period, Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period … More tribes, nationalities, and countries emerged, creating even more splendid civilizations. They were divided and united. History rose in a spiral and moved forward in twists and turns, blossoming vaguely in the darkness.
The more Li Yao looked at it, the more familiar it was. He felt that he had read a similar history somewhere before. Right. It was on the Earth at the center of the Flood in the bizarre dreams!
Although some names and places were different in the history of Earth that he had read in his dreams, including the time of some important historical events, the general development sequence was exactly the same, just like different versions of the same Earth.
"What the hell is going on?!"
Li Yao was completely dumbfounded. He did not know how many Earths there were and how many histories there were. Or rather, there were countless Earths and countless repeats of history, which was also the so-called 'reincarnation'!
As the concept of 'epoch' appeared on the Earth in his mind, everything was even faster than before.
The ancient armor was riddled with holes by the cutting-edge guns. The darkness and ignorance of the Middle Ages were smashed into pieces by the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. When the eastern continents were still mired in the swamp of the cycle of history, an unparalleled expert named Watt had emerged in the western world. He gathered the technology and wisdom of the predecessors and improved the 'steam engine', the ultimate treasure of the first-generation civilization!
The appearance of the steam engine enabled the primitive civilization to step into the first industrial revolution. It was a great era where everything was going on.
From that moment on, the primitive civilization was only one step away from the sea of stars.
However …
Wait. Wait!
Li Yao suddenly realized something very weird.
It seemed very illogical, but because it was right in front of his eyes, he ignored it. "Is this really the development of the primitive civilization in the early years? Why can't I see any trace of 'spiritual energy'?"
"Yes," the voice said.
The voice said, "Our home planet is very lucky. It is located in a 'psionic bubble' or 'spiritless space.' During our early evolution, we were indeed not affected by psionic energy. At that time, we called our most powerful force 'technology.'"
"Very … lucky?"
Li Yao found it hard to understand for a moment. "You consider being born in the 'Spiritless Space' as a blessing. Why?
"With your wisdom, you should be able to deduce the answer to that question on your own," the voice said.
The voice said, "For any primitive civilization that develops from scratch, it is a great fortune to be born in a 'spiritless space'. Only such a civilization can grow into a real dominator of the universe after they are capable of flying out of their mother planet. A long time later, when the Primeval Civilization conquered the universe, almost all the formidable enemies that we encountered had their mother planets in spiritless spaces. On the other hand, the civilizations whose mother planets were in environments with abundant spiritual energy and developed to the peak smoothly all the way, no matter how strong they were individually, were all weak in reality and could not withstand a single blow."
"Well …"
Li Yao was deep in thought.
Spiritual energy was the purest and most stable form of energy. Although it was not as powerful as tenebrum energy, its comprehensive utilization efficiency was definitely higher than tenebrum energy, and its range of application was wider. Why was it said that having spiritual energy was a misfortune, and the lack of spiritual energy was a blessing?
Li Yao thought of something and remembered that he had lived near an undersea volcano as an ancient fungus during the test just now and survived with the heat of the volcano and the chemical energy of the magma.
For a tiny ancient fungus or even an entire carpet of fungi, the heat and chemical energy of the magma were almost inexhaustible. If he were only satisfied with the form of an ancient fungus, he could almost live around the undersea volcano forever.
But what was the point of such a life?
In the meantime, Li Yao thought of the Earth in his memory and the mother planet of the primitive civilization before his eyes. Many tropical species lived around the equator, too.
Those tropical species were born to enjoy rich land and endless crops. They were neither troubled by the invasion of cold nor the threat of being bitten by ferocious beasts, nor did they have the problem of food shortage. It was safe to say that they were sitting in a treasure bowl since they were born. Whatever they wanted, they could grab it casually. They did not even need to stretch out their hands. Fruits that were rich in starch and nutrients would directly fall from the trees for them to enjoy.
As a result, the wisdom of those tropical species was not developed at all. Instead, they indulged in endless vulgar interests and animal instincts. While their counterparts in the temperate zone and the cold zone were fighting against the world and advancing by leaps and bounds in hard struggles and harsh eliminations, the tropical civilizations had always been stagnant at a very low level.
Born in sorrow and die in peace. Li Yao had just told him that not long ago. How could he have forgotten it so quickly?
"I understand it now!"
Li Yao said aloud, "If a planet is in a space zone where spiritual energy is abundant, it will be too easy and simple for the intelligent lives there to survive. It will not be enough for them to develop extraordinary intelligence and a complicated social form. They will even lack the need to communicate effectively with their own kind. Those are the foundations of a civilization!
"A world where spiritual energy is abundant is like a tropics with abundant resources. A world where spiritual energy is scarce is like a temperate zone and a cold zone with harsh environments. The former is destined to fail to raise a prosperous civilization, and only the latter is the real hotbed of a great civilization!"
"You're right."
The voice said, "The so-called 'civilization' is the sum of the humanistic spirit, inventions, and public order that has been settled in history, which is beneficial to the enhancement of the adaptation and cognition of the intelligent lives to the objective world, which is in line with the spiritual pursuit of the intelligent lives, and which can be recognized and accepted by the majority of people.
"Civilization is the collection of all the social behaviors and natural behaviors that make the intelligent lives break away from barbarism. The collection at least includes the following elements: family concepts, tools, languages, writings, beliefs, religious concepts, laws, cities, and countries.
"In order to produce all the elements, there is a fundamental premise, which is the relative equality between human beings.
"Only monkeys or ants can communicate with each other and create a society, language, laws, beliefs, and so on. In the end, a great civilization can be created. Between monkeys and ants, there is no way to create a society, let alone a civilization.
"Spiritual energy, on the other hand, is an extremely special and precious energy that can stimulate cells, activate the strength of individuals, and significantly increase the differences between individuals. In a world without spiritual energy, there is a limit to the differences between individuals of carbon-based intelligent lives. Even an overlord who once conquered an entire continent, slaughtered millions of enemies, and established illustrious achievements may be slain by a beggar with a sharp blade. That is' relative equality 'or' relative inequality '. When an ordinary man is angry, blood will splash five steps away. When a man is close to him, he will be the enemy of a country. That is the foundation of a great civilization.
"However, on the planets that are naturally abundant in spiritual energy, the carbon-based lives have learned the ways to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, devour Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and evolve and mutate crazily since a long time ago. Even if an intelligent race is born in the end, the differences between every individual in the race are so great that the weak can barely pose any threat to the strong.
"When a million weaklings pose no threat to the ultimate experts when they are gathered, such a society is bound to be abnormal, and the civilization is bound to be weak. The ultimate experts do not have the need and necessity to promote the advancement of the civilization, and it is impossible for the weaklings to trigger the desire for exploration and creativity. They will not be forced to explore new technologies and establish new public order, good customs, and social rules like the people in the spiritless worlds. In such a world, the law of the jungle is the only law, and any technologies and ideas that might weaken the spiritual energy will be nipped in the cradle.
"On the path of the primitive civilization to conquer the universe, we encountered countless civilizations that developed from planets with abundant spiritual energy. Without exception, those civilizations never crossed their own galaxy or even stepped out of their own planet. Although some of the experts among them had high individual combat ability, the development level of their civilization was at best equal to that of the Middle Ages on Earth. When our starships that were piled with thousands of turrets tore apart their atmosphere, they were still waving their hilarious weapons and trying to compete with us with the shabby spiritual energy!
"Furthermore, in the most extreme civilization of spiritual energy, the ultimate expert absorbed the spiritual energy of the entire planet into his body, turning himself into an old monster that could live for tens of thousands of years. Other people of his kind all turned into parasites on his body, unable to resist him at all. However, because there was nothing in the entire environment that could threaten him at all, his intelligence gradually deteriorated, and he became an idiot that was no better than a three-year-old. He was captured by us easily and treated as an exhibit in the zoo.
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